American singer, actor, producer and television personality
Nick Lachey
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Lachey in March 2012
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Born
| Nicholas Scott Lachey
(
1973-11-09
)
November 9, 1973
(age 50)
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Occupations
| - Actor
- singer-songwriter
- producer
- television personality
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Years active
| 1995?present
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Spouses
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(
m.
2002;
div.
2006)
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Children
| 3
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Relatives
| Drew Lachey
(brother)
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Musical career
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Genres
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Instrument(s)
| Vocals
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Labels
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Musical artist
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Nicholas Scott Lachey
(
l?-
SHAY
;
[1]
born November 9, 1973)
[2]
is an American singer, dancer, actor, television personality, and host. He rose to fame as the lead singer of the multi-platinum-selling boyband
98 Degrees
and later starred in the reality series
Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica
with his then-wife,
Jessica Simpson
. He has released four solo albums:
SoulO
,
What's Left of Me
,
A Father's Lullaby
, and
Soundtrack of My Life
. He also had a recurring role on the television series
Charmed
. He hosted
NBC
's
The Sing-Off
, co-hosted
VH1
's
Big Morning Buzz Live
from 2014 to 2015, and
Nickelodeon
's
America's Most Musical Family
, and co-hosts the
Netflix
shows
Love Is Blind
and
The Ultimatum
with his wife
Vanessa Lachey
. He is also the sole host of
Perfect Match
for Netflix. In 2021, Lachey won the
fifth season
of
The Masked Singer
.
Early life
[
edit
]
Lachey was born in
Harlan, Kentucky
, to Cathalyn (nee Fopma)
[3]
and John Lachey.
[4]
[5]
He is the brother of singer and actor
Drew Lachey
, alongside whom he has worked closely. His maternal grandfather, Robert James Fopma, was of Dutch descent. Nick's other ancestry is English, Scottish, German, and distant Welsh, Yiddish and French. He attended Clovernook Elementary School in the
Cincinnati
suburb of
North College Hill, Ohio
, and the
School for Creative and Performing Arts
in Cincinnati. He attended
Miami University
in
Oxford, Ohio
, where he joined
Sigma Alpha Epsilon
. In the fall of 1992, he allegedly enrolled at the
University of Southern California
, according to a "statement" he made during his guest appearance on
The Arsenio Hall Show
on December 12, 2013.
Career
[
edit
]
Lachey started his professional singing career at
Kings Island
with close & best friend
Justin Jeffre
in the mid-1990s singing in a do-wop singing group quartet throughout the park and water park.
[6]
[7]
Lachey was a member of the boyband
98 Degrees
along with his brother,
Drew
, Justin Jeffre, and
Jeff Timmons
. Their debut album was the self-titled
98 Degrees
; however, the band's first real success came with their follow-up album
98 Degrees and Rising
. 98 Degrees has sold over 10 million records. 98 Degrees performed a one-off summer reunion show in Hershey, Pennsylvania, at the Summer Mixtape Festival on August 18, 2012, their first concert in more than a decade.
[8]
During the summer of 2003, the
reality show
Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica
, starring Lachey and then-wife
Jessica Simpson
, began airing on MTV. The couple starred in the television special
The Nick and Jessica Variety Hour
, which aired in 2004 and was compared to
The Sonny & Cher Show
.
[9]
In 2005,
Newlyweds
won a
People's Choice Award
for Favorite Reality Show before wrapping shortly after.
[10]
On November 11, 2003, his solo debut album,
SoulO
, was released.
[11]
Despite being released during the success of
Newlyweds
, the album was a commercial failure. Lachey took a recurring role in the series
Charmed
between 2004 and 2005.
[12]
What's Left of Me
was released on May 9, 2006, and debuted at number two on the
Billboard
200. The album was certified Gold, after selling more than 500,000 copies domestically. The first single from the album was the title track, "
What's Left of Me
", released on February 21, 2006. The song became a hit, reaching a peak position of number six on the
Billboard
Hot 100. The video for "What's Left Of Me" featured former MTV VJ,
Vanessa Minnillo
. Lachey recorded "
Ordinary Day
" for the
Oprah Winfrey
-produced film,
For One More Day
. Lachey began working on his third solo album in 2007.
[13]
Lachey also starred in a well-known TV series,
One Tree Hill
, as a singer at Red Bedroom Productions. It was announced in January 2010 that Jive Records had put his new album on hold indefinitely.
[14]
In June 2010, Lachey confirmed that he had parted ways with Jive Records.
Taking the Stage
, a musical reality show documenting the personal lives of high school students at the School for Creative and Performing Arts, premiered on
MTV
in March 2009. It was produced by Lachey. In December 2009, he hosted
The Sing-Off
, a long form four-part American singing competition featuring a cappella groups, a role he reprised in December 2010 for the show's second and third seasons on
NBC
. Lachey was a contestant in the
NBC
celebrity reality competition series called
Stars Earn Stripes
.
[15]
On January 16, 2014, VH1 announced Lachey would resume hosting
Big Morning Buzz Live
, upon its return on March 3, 2014.
[16]
[17]
On September 6, 2017, Lachey was announced as one of the celebrities who will take part in the
25th season
of
Dancing with the Stars
, competing against his wife Vanessa. He was paired with professional dancer
Peta Murgatroyd
.
[18]
Murgatroyd's husband,
Maksim Chmerkovskiy
, was paired with Vanessa. On October 23, Lachey and Murgatroyd were the fifth couple to be eliminated from the competition, leaving in ninth place.
[19]
Lachey hosted a musical competition on
Nickelodeon
titled
America's Most Musical Family
[20]
which premiered on November 1, 2019.
[21]
Lachey and his wife currently co-host the Netflix reality shows
Love Is Blind
and
The Ultimatum: Marry or Move On
.
[22]
Lachey also hosts
Perfect Match
for Netflix, solo.
[23]
Other ventures
[
edit
]
Lachey is part owner of the Hollywood Fame, a team in the
American Basketball Association
that began play in fall 2006, and was part of an ownership group of the
Tacoma Rainiers
, the
Seattle Mariners
' Triple-A affiliate. Lachey is also a die-hard
Cincinnati Bengals
,
Cincinnati Reds
and
Cincinnati Bearcats
fan.
[24]
On April 7, 2009, Lachey threw out the
ceremonial first pitch
for the
MLB
Opening Day
game in
Cincinnati, Ohio
. On July 9, 2011, Lachey sang the National Anthem for the inaugural NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Kentucky Speedway in Sparta, Kentucky.
Lachey was among a group of investors that placed a
marijuana legalization
initiative on the Ohio ballot in 2015.
[25]
The initiative sought exclusive grow rights for the group members while prohibiting all other cultivation except small amounts for personal use.
[26]
Lachey appeared in a TV ad advocating for passage of the initiative, but it was ultimately defeated.
[27]
Lachey is on the Entertainment Council of the hunger-relief organization
Feeding America
.
[28]
In 2021, Lachey competed on
season five
of
The Masked Singer
as "Piglet". He was declared the winner of the season.
[29]
Personal life
[
edit
]
In December 1998, Lachey and fellow singer
Jessica Simpson
were introduced by their shared manager at a Christmas event. They subsequently began dating after meeting again at a
Teen People
event in January 1999, but broke up for five months beginning in April 2001 until getting back together following the
September 11 attacks
.
[30]
They became engaged in February 2002,
[31]
and married on October 26, 2002, in
Austin, Texas
.
[32]
In November 2005, after months of
tabloid
speculation, Lachey and Simpson announced they were
separating
. Simpson filed for divorce on December 16, 2005, citing "irreconcilable differences".
[33]
[34]
The couple's divorce was publicized worldwide and was reportedly finalized on June 30, 2006.
[35]
Soon after the release of "
What's Left of Me
", Lachey's 2006 music video starring
Vanessa Minnillo
, he and Minnillo began dating.
[36]
They briefly broke up in June 2009,
[37]
but by October 2009, Lachey confirmed that they were back together after having been "single for a minute".
[38]
Lachey and Minnillo became engaged in November 2010,
[39]
and married on July 15, 2011, on Sir
Richard Branson
's private
Necker Island
in the
British Virgin Islands
.
[40]
The wedding was filmed and televised on TLC.
[41]
They have three children, two sons and a daughter.
[42]
[43]
[44]
Discography
[
edit
]
98 Degrees
Solo albums
Filmography
[
edit
]
Awards and nominations
[
edit
]
- ASCAP Pop Music Awards
- American Music Awards
- Groovevolt Music and Fashion Awards
- MTV Video Music Awards
- Teen Choice Awards
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